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What is Twitter??

TWITTER EXPLAINED

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, "What are you doing?" by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called "tweets", to your friends, or "followers."

The short format of the tweet is a defining characteristic of the service, allowing informal collaboration and quick information sharing that provides relief from rising email and IM fatigue. Twittering is also a less gated method of communication: you can share information with people that you wouldn't normally exchange email or IM messages with, opening up your circle of contacts to an ever-growing community of like-minded people.

You can send your messages using the Twitter website directly, as a single SMS alert, or via a third-party application such as Twirl, Snitter, or the Twitterfox add-on for Firefox. (See below for links to Twitter tools and applications.)

Your tweets are displayed on your profile page, on the home page of each of your followers, and in the Twitter public timeline (unless you disable this in your account settings.)

    

Twitter and theBravest

Tim and I have decided to use Twitter in conjunction with theBravest.com to provide our listeners with an informal notification service of fires and major events in NYC (these can go directly to your cell phone as a text message if you set up your Twitter account right), as well as occasional notifications of what Tim and I are doing on the website and in our lives (for example, when we're in Indy or Baltimore for the conventions, we just might plan an impromptu get together in a local establishment.  And we'll use Twitter to notify our followers...)

We have just started sending out simple 'Tweets' like "10-75 Bronx.  All-Hands on Arrival"  This way, our listeners who are following us on Twitter know to go to our Bronx page to listen to the fire LIVE on the net.

So far it's been going extremely well.

How do I sign up for Tweets from theBravest?

1.  Create a FREE Twitter account.  (See next column)

2.  Search for "theBravest" in the Twitter search box.  Click the "Follow" button on theBravest's Twitter home page.

3.  Activate your Mobile Device or cell phone from your TWITTER Settings page and Device tab.  They will give you a activation number you must text to them from your phone or device. 

4.  Go to your 'Following' tab, make sure theBravest 'device notifications' is turned 'ON'.

Please make sure the text messages aren't costing you $$ if you have our Tweets sent to your cell phone! CHECK YOUR PLAN!!!

  

HOW TO USE TWITTER

GETTING STARTED

Visit the Twitter website and click "Join for free" to create your account. Consider using your real name as your user name to help your friends find you more easily.

Once your account is created, login and click "Settings." From here, you can setup your account details, manage your password, register your mobile phone and IM account, configure how you receive Notices, upload your photo and customize your account's design.

Your Twitter page is located at twitter.com/your-username

SENDING MESSAGES

You can "tweet" from your Twitter page, your mobile phone, IM account, or via a third-party Twitter client (ie.. a desktop application)

  • From your Twitter page: S imply enter a message in the text field at the top of the page and click "Update."
  • From your mobile phone: Send an SMS message to 40404.
  • From your IM account: Send a message to either twitter@twitter.com(Jabber/GTalk) or TwitterIM (AOL).

Your tweet will be displayed to your followers, either on their Twitter page, mobile phone, or any other way they are setup to receive Twitter updates.